'Nashville' Season 2 Finale Recap: Will Comes Out, Rayna Faced With Decision
On the season finale of "Nashville," Scarlett made a big decision, Will came clean and Rayna said yes to a proposal, but her feelings could pull her in another direction.
On the second season finale, Juliette (Hayden Panettiere) wakes up to find Avery (Jonathan Jackson) writing her a love song. Jeff Fordham (Oliver Hudson) keeps calling Avery to sign him to his label, but he assures Juliette that he won't go into business with the smarmy exec.
Meanwhile, Scarlett (Clare Bowen) decides that she wants to stop making music for awhile and go back to school at Ole Miss. But when she stops off at the Bluebird to hear Gunnar (Sam Palladio) sing a song he wrote about her, he tells her she shouldn't go.
Jeff then tells Juliette, with whom he had a tryst recently, to get herself fired from Highway 65 and return to Edgehill or he'll tell Avery everything.
Juliette tells Rayna (Connie Britton) that she wants out of her Highway 65 contract, but Rayna tells her she's definitely not fired, which infuriates Juliette.
Later, at a benefit concert Deacon (Chip Esten) holds for the halfway house that helped him get sober, Juliette gets extremely drunk while Avery sings the song he wrote for her onstage.
After the show, Rayna goes to Juliette's, where Juliette tells Rayna the truth about her liaison with Jeff. Rayna tells her that she deserves to be forgiven.
After sobering up, Juliette is prepared to come clean to Avery, except Gunnar and Zoey already told him the news. Avery shows up at Juliette's, asking her if it's true. She tells him it meant nothing.
"Does it ever mean anything with you?" he asks her.
"You have no idea how much I love you. That's something I'll have to get over," he adds, before storming out.
Later, Juliette tells Jeff that Avery already knows and that Rayna has been able to give away 250,000 downloads of her album instead of Will's (Chris Carmack), ensuring she'll have a big album launch.
At Rayna's show, Luke (Will Chase) proposes to her in front of thousands of fans, and she happily accepts.
Avery then shows up at Juliette's, saying he believes that she loves him. She tells him that she does, but she needs to be saved from her self-sabotaging ways.
Deacon then shows up at Rayna's and professes his love to her and gives her back the ring he drunkenly used to propose to her many years ago.
In the end, a distressed Will finally comes clean and tells his new wife that he's gay. Little do they know that the whole thing is being recorded by a reality show TV camera.
Fans will have to tune in next season to find out if Rayna will go through with her marriage to Luke and if Avery will stick with Juliette.
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